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Stated Meeting, December 21, 1860. 



Present, twenty-two members. 

 Prof. Cresson, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



A letter was read from W. H. Harvey, dated Dublin, De- 

 cember 6, 1860, accepting membership. 



A letter was read from Dr. Casper Morris, dated Philadel- 

 phia, December 18, 1860, resigning membership. 



Letters acknowledging the receipt of the Society's publica- 

 tions were read from the Lusatian Society at Gorlitz, dated 

 September 14 ; the Koyal Academy at Amsterdam, dated 

 March 24 ; the Royal Society of Antiquaries, and M. C. C. 

 Rafn, at Copenhagen, dated October 15, 1860. 



Letters announcing donations were read from the Royal 

 Society of Antiquaries at Copenhagen, dated October 15 ; 

 the Lusatian Society at Gorlitz, dated September 15 ; and 

 the Royal Academy at Amsterdam, dated August 15, 1860. 



A circular letter was read from C. St. A. Bille, dated 

 Copenhagen, September 17, 1860, explaining the appearance 

 of a series of articles in French in the columns of his paper, 

 the "Dagbladet," on the subject of the Schleswig-Holstein 

 difficulties, with two specimen sheets of the paper. 



A letter was read from C. C. Rafn, of Copenhagen, dated 

 October 18, 1860, detailing the publications of the Royal 

 Society of Antiquaries of the North. 



A letter was read from H. "Wheatland, secretary of the 

 Essex Institute, dated Salem, Massachusetts, December IT, 

 1860, announcing a donation, and requesting a set of the 

 Proceedings for the library of the Institute. On motion, the 

 request was granted. 



A letter was read from the president. Dr. Wood, dated 

 London, November 29, and Paris, December 1, 1860, inform- 

 ing the librarian of the measures he had taken to forward 

 their diplomas to foreign members lately elected, and to 

 obtain sets of the publications of the Geological and Ordnance 

 Surveys of Great Britain and France. The secretaries were 



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